Don't Watch List
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFrom the creators who brought you @rm_424 comes Don't Watch List - where Elyse and Claire bring you the very best of the worst TV (and sometimes movies). Each week the hosts will review and recap a new TV show giving you the good, the bad, and the trashy. We don't want to yuck anyone's yum - we love these shows too. For our friends who love a good trashy TV show, these are the recommendations for you. For our friends who have a more sophisticated palate, tune in to hear which shows should be on your Don't Watch List.
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Episodes
Code Noghead
May 26, 2022 12:59 - 58 minutes - 39.6 MBHappy (sad?) Claire-Has-Covid-Day! Ever wanted a show about queer pirates that feels like it should be a television musical but somehow isn't? Well Claire's got just the recommendation for you this week! They're reviewing Our Flag Means Death, a period romance that is.... loosely based on the golden age of piracy - following the reinvented lives of Stede Bonnet and Captain Black Beard. Before we go: Claire: Two newly released albums (which is a little bit cheating, but we'll allow it) Harry...
Optimized for Drama
May 12, 2022 21:13 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBHappy (Belated) Cinco de Mayo! Continuing on with the Reality TV trend, Elyse chose to review the "social experiment" sensation Love is Blind. Hosted by the possibly the most annoying people on the planet, this show seeks to find out if "Love truly is blind." Spoiler alert- it's super not. C'mon folks, it's reality TV. These people are, like, the worst. Love is gonna be as shallow as a puddle in the desert. Tune in to find out why this series is start-to-finish built for drama! Seasons on...
It Was Petty and Incredible
April 28, 2022 18:36 - 1 hour - 51.2 MBHappy Little Treat Day! Get yourself a little treat (or a big treat, who are we to stop you) and settle in to this week's episode, where Claire reviews our first reality TV show of the podcast - Survivor. Hosted by Certified "Chef Kiss of a Man" Jeff Probst, this reality TV show follows the trials and tribulations of a set of contestants who compete against each other over the course of 39 days to become the Sole Survivor. When you pit 20 hungry and exhausted castaways against each other for...
Is Artsy Code for Gay?
April 14, 2022 13:14 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBHappy Discussing-Niche-Topics Day! This week, Elyse and Claire again fail to make their episode shorter than one hour. Baby steps, listener. Baby, virtually non-existent steps. Elyse leads this episode with one of the most popular shows on Netflix right now - Bridgerton. A cross between Pride & Prejudice and Gossip Girl, this show really has it all. Drama, scandal, gossip, romance, balls, and most importantly, HANDS. A fun revamped version of the period romance, this indisputably trashy TV sh...
George Eastman Kodak
March 31, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 54.8 MBHappy New Episode Format! This week, Elyse and Claire spice things up by changing Don't Watch List's episode format (in the hopes of making each episode a bit shorter, which Listener, you'll see has questionable results). Claire and Elyse from now on will switch off who recommends - or doesn't recommend - each biweekly show. Claire boldly takes on the first episode using this new configuration, and dives into the Netflix sensation Inventing Anna. A dramatized retelling of real events, Inven...
It's the Fricken Bug Eyes!
March 03, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBHappy Belated National Margarita Day! Which is the best hobby - gaslighting a margarita, gatekeeping Patrick Swayze movies, or lying for fun? Follow-up question - what does that have to do with trash TV? The answer to both is the same: wouldn't you like to know, weatherboy. This week, Elyse analyzes the complex nature of reboots through the new iteration of How I Met Your Mother, which fittingly is called How I Met Your Father. What makes a good reboot? Is there such thing as a good reboot? ...
Arguably worse, I would argue
February 14, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBHappy I-Can't-Believe-They-Didn't-Montage Day! (and Valentine's Day, or whatever.) Today, in honor of the day of love, Elyse and Claire bring you a special little treat - the third installment of quite possibly the worst trashy movie series of all time: After We Fell. Why did they choose the third movie instead of, say, the first? Don't ask stupid questions, listener. Since this is a break from their usual trend of TV reviews, Elyse and Claire kick off by explaining the difference between th...
Don't call me a Ma'am!
February 03, 2022 15:43 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBHappy Elyse-writes-the-description-late day! Guess who's 23 and bad at Wordle? You'll have to listen to find out. You'll also have to listen to hear about the two shows chosen for this week - Claire brings us The Bold Type, and Elyse pulls in UnREAL. The Bold Type is, according to Claire, a "genuinely terrible show." Despite this, they highly recommend. The show itself centers around women working in magazine publication and has some problems with plot continuity, in the most entertaining wa...
A Super-Hell Qualifying Event
January 20, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBHappy "The CW has not been profitable since 2006" Day! A very very warm anti-Gyllenhaal welcome to our first guest episode of the podcast - Claire and Elyse's dear friend Mimi! Mimi is yet another connoisseur of trash TV, and in this episode she reveals the intricacies of the long-running non-profitable hit CW TV show, Supernatural. One of the three fabled major Tumblr fandoms, this show is full to the brim with trash - and Mimi certainly delivers on the dirty details explaining why. Definite...
In Fact, One Doesn't.
December 23, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBHappy Honda Days, listeners! Grab a cozy little beverage, your newest treat from your advent calendar, and take a seat by the fireplace (if you don't have a real one, computer generated is fine) while you listen to Claire and Elyse jostle about some words in today's episode. First off, Elyse shares her second favorite TV show centered around crime and con-artistry - Imposters. If you like Six of Crows, White Collar, or the Oceans movies, you're guaranteed to love this series, which is curr...
Thinkin' About Noghead
December 09, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBHappy season of the 'Nog! I'm going to be real with you, listener. You can just skip 02:41-04:40. Just skip on over it. Please. Claire kicks us off today! Make it or Break it - a fantastic mess that happens when you combine high-stakes athletics with the daily struggles of teenage life (your typical she-slept-with-her-best-friend's-boyfriends, pregnancies, poisonings. Y'know. Teenage stuff.). Elyse picks up after that with one of her favorite comfort shows - a happy-go-lucky medieval musica...
'Twas a Quip
November 25, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBGobble gobble, listeners. Happy Turkey Day! This week, your favorite hosts are doing what they do best - leaning into a theme as hard as possible, potentially to a fault. This episode is jam-packed with new Thanksgiving content: grammar lessons, mulled wine, and a brand new episode format. Claire and Elyse are breaking out of the good, bad, and trashy, and are instead ranking the Gossip Girl Thanksgiving specials from worst to best based on... uh... let's see... *shuffles papers around* um....
Strident Siren Sound
November 11, 2021 16:07 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBHappy new holiday drink menu at Starbucks day! Let's talk trash! And babies. And Timothée Chalamet for some reason? While also peppering in a quick argument about whether or not ghosts can smell or taste. We have a lot of ground to cover in this episode. Today, Elyse discusses the logistics of baby-napping - I mean the best ways to prevent your baby from being baby-napped - in her prelude to her chosen show this week, Switched at Birth. As the first mainstream TV show to feature the deaf c...
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October 31, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBHappy Halloween day! In this specially themed episode, Elyse and Claire kick things off by celebrating all things Halloween. They share their favorite parts of the holiday, ranging from bean fondling, to Nightmare Before Christmas discourse, to revealing a brand new Enemies of the Podcast list. They've failed to get haunted for years, so this year they've settled for the next best thing - revisiting their favorite spooky trash TV show, Pretty Little Liars. In an unprecedented twist of even...
Three Full Printed Pages - Single Spaced
October 21, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBHappy Bones Day! Or not. Truthfully, I haven't checked the forecast. This week, in the spirit of the Spooky October season, it's all about the thematically sinister genre of the Psychological Thriller. Claire pulls us into the spine-chilling world of What/If. This show is filled with "What"s - What's the perfect balance between compelling and mysterious? What makes the atmosphere of a Psychological Thriller so, well, thrilling? What makes a good shocking twist? They also introduce a new sho...
Little Mr. No No
October 14, 2021 11:39 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBHappy Oatly's-On-Thin-F*cking-Ice Day! This week, Elyse tackles Once Upon a Time, discussing what happens when fairy tales come to the modern world - some of the major talking points include creepy little boys, cringe dialogue, and (naturally) the Hero's Journey. If you've already seen Once Upon a Time and are jonesing for more, check out its spinoff Once Upon a Time in Wonderland! Claire then dives into You, starring the reluctant and yet incredibly wonderful Penn Badgley. They touch on w...
We're Verbally Famous!
October 07, 2021 23:37 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBWe're verbally famous now! Er, whatever that means. In our premier episode, Claire and Elyse review two trashy TV shows near and dear to their hearts - going through the good, the bad, and of course, the trashy. Claire kicks things off discussing Criminal Minds - they talk about the ins and out of the monster-of-the-week structure, character tropes, and the girlboss/daddy energy present throughout the show. Elyse follows up with the pinnacle of trash television - Gossip Girl. Toxic romance,...